by Guy | Mar 16, 2023 | Banking, Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Investing, Leadership, Risk, Valuation
One of the dominant news items of the past week or so was the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse. It caused a level of panic around the world, understandable as it’s a high profile bank which was focused on providing finance to the tech and venture capital sectors, and the...
by Guy | Mar 2, 2023 | Board & Governance, Board of Directors, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Excellence, Growth, Leadership, Risk, Strategy, Success
It’s hard to read any newspaper or newsletter today without at least one article on Artificial Intelligence (AI), such has been the hype this year – many suggesting a wholesale move to AI is not only imminent, but necessary… So, what is this hype all about, and is...
by Guy | Feb 16, 2023 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Culture, Growth, Leadership, Productivity, Profitability, Risk, Strategy, Work Life Balance
What would happen to your business if something happened to you? Would it remain profitable? Would it realise its true value? Would it even survive? What would happen to your family? And when was the last time you took a holiday without being on call, with your tech,...
by Guy | Feb 9, 2023 | Board & Governance, Business - General, BusinessFitness, Cities, Culture, Disruption, Economy, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Lifestyle, Motivation, Pandemic, COVID, Productivity, Risk, Strategy, Work Life Balance, Working From Home
How true – for without planning, the future becomes simply a matter of luck. What brought this to mind was reading a report from IWG / Regus earlier today entitled, “The Future of Work – a trends forecast for 2023.” and as they’re among the biggest suppliers globally...
by Guy | Jan 19, 2023 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Disruption, Growth, Leadership, Risk, Success
As a business leader, it is often easy to get caught up in the day-to-day tasks of running a business and forget the importance of making quick decisions – especially when coming back from a holiday and finding your email box full and your desk piled high with things...
by Guy | Nov 22, 2022 | Business - General, BusinessFitness, Coaching, Culture, Excellence, Growth, HR & Personnel, Leadership, Motivation, Risk, Strategy, Success
Perfect [adj] – having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be. Isn’t this what we want from businesses and leaders we deal with? I would argue not – that what we want is a level of imperfection....